Cape Horn
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noun
a headland on a small island at the southern extremity of South America: belongs to Chile.
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Cape Horn
noun
a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the PacificAlso called: the Horn
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